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Plague in Ituri Province, DRC: ‘Grave consequences for children’, says UNICEF

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By NewsDesk @bactiman63 Today, UNICEF published a piece in UN News concerning plague in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the risks for young children. Izzy Scott Moncrieff, UNICEF...

PLAGUE primer and updated treatment recommendations with Christina Nelson, MD

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced updated recommendations for the...

Septicemic plague in Arizona, 2020; Zika virus in Maharashtra and more

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Here we’ll take a look at some other news going on across the globe: Notes from the Field: Delays in Identification and Treatment of a Case of Septicemic Plague — Navajo County, Arizona, 2020 On...

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New Mexico reports 1st plague death of the year in Rio Arriba County

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By NewsDesk @bactiman63 Just about two weeks since reporting their first human plague case of the year in Santa Fe County, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reports the death of a man in his...

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Plague cluster reported in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Ecohealth Alliance are reporting a plague cluster in the Ituri endemic focus of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The notification was published...

Plague: 4th case reported in China, according to Taiwan CDC

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on our recent reports on plague cases in China (HERE and HERE), the Taiwan Department of Disease Control reported on a fourth human plague case. The...

Plague death reported in Lambayeque, Peru

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Officials with the Gerencia Regional de Salud Lambayeque have reported (computer translated) on a human plague death, the first such death in two decades in the region. A 42-year-old man died on July...

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Plague: Transmission, pathology, diagnosis and treatment

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Today we learned that the Madagascar plague outbreak is spreading rapidly throughout the country with UN health officials now reporting some 1300 cases and more than 100 deaths since August. Last time...

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24 plague deaths reported in Madagascar since August

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In a follow-up on the plague outbreak in Madagascar, a total of 73 cases (suspected, probable and confirmed) of pneumonic plague, including 17 deaths (case fatality rate 23.3%) have been reported from...

Colorado HS student, Taylor Gaes, ID’d as plague victim. What is septicemic plague?

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In a follow-up to an earlier report on a human plague death in Larimer County, Colorado, multiple local news sources have identified the victim of the lethal bacterial infection as 16-year-old Poudre...